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A young Dutch inventor is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by also moving into rivers, using a new floating device to catch garbage before it reaches the seas.

The government has to step up its fight against online disinformation in the wake of the federal election, says Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould. Gould's comments come as government officials say attempts at misinformation or disinformation were detected but not enough to sound the alarm.

Workers at Pacific Rim National Park are looking for locals to help collect wolf scat as part of a wider study to understand the diet, ancestry and kinship of the local wolf population.